STAND ON SOMEONE'S SHOULDERS

The first day of class at the start of the year, our teachers made us fill out forms to evaluate ourselves on our strengths and weaknesses. I’ve realized that some of the things that I have put down are not as true as I thought they’d be. Based on my experiences from being a summer counselor and multiple experiences being a team leader I thought I was a relatively good leader and I could encourage people and keep the momentum up. Things have changed since I’ve enter college though. It’s really hard working in groups. Let me rephrase that. It’s hard working in school groups where the goal of the individual isn’t the same as the goal of the group. I don’t think I will have a problem working with people when I get out into the real world, but it’s hard to make people want to work when they don’t want to whether it be lack of compensation or whatever else. The reason I’m bringing this up is because I wanted to shed some light with the group and beef up our encouragement. Over all, habiTECH works well as a team.
But here are just a few words of wisdom from Bruce Mau.

Allow events to change you
Process is more important that outcome
Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child)
Go Deep
Capture accidents
Drift
Begin anywhere
Everyone is a leader
Keep moving
Slow down
Ask stupid questions
Collaborate
Stay up late
Work the metaphor
Be careful to take risks
Repeat yourself
Stand on someone’s shoulder’s
Listen carefully
Explore the other edge
Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms
Laugh
Remember
Power to the people

If you want a more detailed explanation, stop by and come see me, Mau’s has got some good stuff to say.

I also want to add that today we laid out our building perimeter for our formwork to be constructed. The house seems really small when standing in the “spaces” but it still exciting to see the mind’s work being brought to life.